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UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950, by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country.

In more than five decades, the agency has helped an estimated 50 million people restart their lives. UNHCR now has more than 16,803 personnel and work in a total of 134 countries to help 70.8 million persons.

 Website: www.unhcr.org
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1 Refugee Without Hope: Sick Afghan girl gets new Finnish start

28 September 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, Country Chapter - Finland

July 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR Comments on law proposal RP 86/2008 rd transposing the Asylum Procedures Directive into Finnish law

January 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report (Excerpts of Treaty Body Concluding Observations and Special Procedure Reports) - Universal Periodic Review: Finland

21 November 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, Country Chapter - Finland

March 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, 2004 (country chapters last updated September 2009)

1 November 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

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